{"id":523,"date":"2009-02-17T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2009\/02\/17\/the-allegory-of-the-cave\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:55:40","slug":"the-allegory-of-the-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2009\/02\/17\/the-allegory-of-the-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"The Allegory of the Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plato&#8217;s Allegory of the Cave (see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plato%27s_allegory_of_the_cave\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>) illustrates &#8220;our nature in its education and want of education.&#8221; It is maybe one of the most famous allegories in literature and philosophy, a precursor to the kinds of mind-games (think <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brain_in_a_vat\">brain in a vat<\/a>) that philosophers like Dennett engage in today [<a href=\"http:\/\/instruct.westvalley.edu\/lafave\/where_am_i.html\">Where am I?<\/a> is a good example of this genre].<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure I quite buy into the argument being made in the allegory of the cave, or whether there is one &#8220;strict&#8221; interpretation of it. The other day I stumbled upon a lovely, stop-motion animated, version of the allegory. Check it out below: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center>[youtube width=&#8221;425&#8243; height=&#8221;355&#8243;]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E4XXItJYFKA[\/youtube]<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The only strange thing in the video was the music they used, particularly towards the end. I sounded very much like an instrumental version of a Bollywood film song&#8230; kinda weird. [If you want to hear the actual song this reminded me of go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OkuTeRQiFEg\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally you can find out more about the Plato&#8217;s Allegory video by going <a href=\"http:\/\/platosallegory.com\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plato&#8217;s Allegory of the Cave (see Wikipedia entry) illustrates &#8220;our nature in its education and want of education.&#8221; It is maybe one of the most famous allegories in literature and philosophy, a precursor to the kinds of mind-games (think brain in a vat) that philosophers like Dennett engage in today [Where am I? is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10,23,22,48,32,29,18,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}